Metacognition: The Things They Carried Essay

I read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien last year in English class. This book was a lot different then any of the other books I've read, because it required a whole new level of thinking. We did many worksheets and interpretations of this book, and it was really hard because this book was really hard to understand. But the more we talked about it, and the more I read, it became more clear. When I wrote the final essay on the book, I had a lot of knowledge and I could kind of think differently, which really surprised me, because I usually don't understand things like that because my mind isn't very complex at all. I had to think about story truth and happening truth which occurred a lot in his book. But I feel like my usual way of thinking is very general and common. This might have changed my thinking for one particular assignment, but not forever. I don't really like my own mind, because Its so un-unique. Like the creative side, creative ideas and observations don't really come to me that easily, and that is something I'd really like to fix.